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allicata - Jan 18, 2008 - 2:29 pm

Hello!
I am trying to take a ppt file and make a movie and burn to a DVD for just a DVD player. I used Keynotes to create a few pages to see how that would work because you can export it as a Quicktime movie. When I open the file in Quicktime it looks big and clean. But, when I burn it to a DVD it looks very fuzzy. I am on Tiger and Roxio as my burner. I have not been able to locate anything that will take a ppt file and convert to play in a DVD format. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Allison

Natobasso - Jan 18, 2008 - 2:34 pm

You need to adjust your compression preferences from iDVD. Make sure you select 'advanced' to have full control. It's probably set to web quality by default.

allicata - Jan 18, 2008 - 2:45 pm

I am not using iDVD. I have the Quicktime movie created from Keynotes and then I put a blank DVD disc in my computer and Roxio comes up and I click DVD to burn. Then when I view it in my DVD player it looks grainy. The version I have for iDVD is 5.0.1

Natobasso - Jan 20, 2008 - 1:26 pm

I'd recommend pulling that Quicktime file into iMovie and then working with the export settings to get dvd quality. The way you're doing it right now you are heavily compressing the video, too much, which is giving you the current result.

allicata - Jan 21, 2008 - 8:40 am

I brought the Quicktime into iMovie by just dragging it there. What I see when I drag it there is it still looks grainy. But the Quicktime movie looks great. It is when I try to burn it to a DVD in either the iDVD or iMovie. Not sure how to get around this?

Natobasso - Jan 21, 2008 - 12:34 pm

iMovie doesn't change the quicktime file unless you tell it to. Look at your import preferences. Play the movie too, you may just be seeing a preview image in iMovie if you don't play it.

When you export it's easy to mess with the 'advanced' preferences for output, or just choose DVD.

Have you considered your original file might be at fault?

allicata - Jan 22, 2008 - 1:54 pm

Than tell me what to do if you think it is the fault of the original file. I created a file that has animation affects like ppt but I did it in Keynotes. When I export it, I export it as a QuickTime. From there I am trying to create a movie that looks good when played on a DVD player. My iDVD is 5.01, my iMovie is 5.0.2. The keynotes is a trial I am using and will last for 30 days. Not sure what I can do after your suggestions and didn't work

Natobasso - Jan 22, 2008 - 2:17 pm

Tell me the export specs you're using from keynote to make your Quicktime file? We'll start here and work our way through your process.

allicata - Jan 22, 2008 - 2:28 pm

ok. I click export and that takes me to box with the options to export in pdf, html and other apps as well as quicktime. So I click quicktime and Playback Uses: Manual Adance, Formats: Full Quality, Large and Audio is checked. Then, I click "next" and it adds the extension .mov and I save it.

Natobasso - Jan 22, 2008 - 3:04 pm

Is there an Advanced option?

If not, do Full Quality. Then bring that into iMovie and see how it looks.

allicata - Jan 22, 2008 - 3:31 pm

With this version there is not Advanced option. When you say bring that into iMovie am I going to import that quicktime?

Natobasso - Jan 24, 2008 - 4:21 pm

Apple's Keynote website for all the tutorials you could ever hope for:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/

and more specifically here:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials...ote-deliver-24

Basically you only get the quality out that you put in. You have to export from Keynote the highest quality file (I assume that's Full Quality) then drag that file to iMovie. If that file plays the way you would like, then iMovie has advanced exporting options (it's the 'advanced' tab I'm talking about).

iMovie is a simple app in that you open it up, it's blank, but then you can physically 'drag and drop' one or more .mov/quicktime files into it.

Beyond that, if you do it the way you described originally, you have to adjust the burn settings in Roxio to DVD quality, or the like. It sounds like Roxio is set to burn at a lower rate than you want.